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The National Rugby League has "sought the counsel of its greatest competitor," the Australian Football League, as it "prepares to adopt the biggest equalisation measure since the introduction of the salary cap," according to Adrian Proszenko of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Rugby League Central is "pre...

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Hundreds of blood bags seized as part of the Operation Puerto doping investigation into cycling and other sports "must be released to the authorities, a Spanish court has ruled," according to Martyn Ziegler of the LONDON TIMES. The court in Madrid overturned an earlier ruling and has "ordered t ...

France Television program Stade 2 has "alleged that the UCI worked to disrupt a police investigation into mechanical doping during last year’s Tour de France," according to Sadhbh O'Shea of CYCLING NEWS. The program, which was broadcast on Sunday, reported that "police spoke with the UCI ...

World Rugby Vice-Chair Agustin Pichot "is to look into the sport's international eligibility rules as part of a wide-ranging report into the sustainability of the game in the Pacific island nations." The former Argentina int'l "came out strongly against the existing rules, which allow a player t ...

National Rugby League side Parramatta Eels Dir Peter Serrao "has become the first of the Eels' so-called 'gang of five' to break their silence, saying he is hopeful of clearing his name and claiming he was left in the dark about the club's rorting of NRL salary cap rules with third-party agreements, ...

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said that "the city will move to secure the future of the Canadian grand prix," according to GRAND PRIX. Over the weekend, F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone "cast doubt on the future of the popular race" by suggesting Montreal had failed to fulfill its pledge to update the Circui ...

Three senior athletics officials "have been provisionally suspended by the IAAF's Ethics Board pending an investigation into their alleged involvement in a suspected cover-up of Russian doping cases," according to Mitch Phillips of REUTERS.
Nick Davies, who was chief-of-staff to Int'l Association of ...

Germany's athletics federation chief called on the IOC "to ban Russian track and field athletes from the Olympic Games in Brazil this year." Clemens Prokop wrote to IOC President Thomas Bach ahead of a June 17 meeting of the Int'l Association of Athletics Federations which "is set to de ...

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that allegations he had helped cover up a top footballer's positive doping test "were silly and that he and Russia were being smeared as payback for winning the right to host the 2018 World Cup," according to Jack Stubbs of REUTERS.
Mutko, who is battling to ...

An Int'l Tennis Federation tribunal on Wednesday suspended Maria Sharapova through Jan. 25, 2018, a sentence she immediately said she would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
The tribunal suspended her for ingesting meldonium, a substance she had taken legally for years until WADA banned ...

Influential Manager Craig Kelly has called for the Australian Football League "to take charge of player agents," saying the game's head office "is better resourced and has more 'clout' to control unscrupulous managers."
Disenchanted by reports in recent days involving questionable behavior by pl ...